SHF Teams Up With Speedway Children's Charities

The gift of hearing will be delivered free to over 75 beneficiaries, as Speedway Children's Charities and the Starkey Hearing Foundation host "Get in Gear to Help Children Hear".

Concord, N.C. (May 3, 2010) – Speedway Children‟s Charities and the National Rifle Association are partnering with the Starkey Hearing Foundation to deliver the gift of hearing to more than 70 underserved children and adults throughout the Carolinas on May 10, noon to 4pm, at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Members of the media are invited to attend the press conference and celebrity introductions with a welcome by Justin Osmond at 11:00am in the "Victory Circle."

Through this hearing mission, "Get in Gear to Help Children Hear," the Starkey Hearing foundation will provide hearing devices at no cost. The Starkey Hearing Foundation is a global leader in hearing health care and since 2000 the Foundation has supplied 442,221 hearing aids to people in need throughout 86 countries. Currently the Starkey Hearing Foundation is working toward its goal to deliver 100,000 free hearing aids per year and one million in this decade.

"We live through what we give, and our best work is helping people," said Bill Austin, CEO of Starkey Laboratories and founder of the Starkey Hearing Foundation. "We can’t do this alone, but together we can say we did something right. I am grateful to our partners who are truly humanitarians and in helping to change the world."